Fisheries and Resources Monitoring System

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Main Function  
The functions of the Commission include, inter alia: to gather and interpret information on tunato conduct scientific investigation concerning the abundance, biology, biometry, and ecology of yellowfin and skipjack tuna in the Convention Area, and to recommend proposals for joint action for conservation.
Objectives  
The main objectives of the Convention are to maintain the populations of yellowfin and skipjack tuna and other kind of fish taken by tuna fishing vessels in the eastern Pacific and to cooperate in the gathering and interpretation of factual information to facilitate maintaining the populations of these fishes at a level which permits maximum sustinable catches year after year.

Since 1976, the Commission has implemented a programme on tuna dolphin relationship and since 1992 it has developed an International Dolphin Conservation Programme aiming at progressively reducing dolphin mortality in tuna fishing. The Commission also serves as the Secretariat for the Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Program, whose principal objective is to reduce and strictly regulate accidental dolphin mortality which occurs in the purse seine fisheries for tuna.

Convention Area  
Eastern Pacific Ocean  

IATTC zone of competence
INTER-AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION
Topic coverage  
Fisheries Governance (Marine), Fisheries Research (Fisheries), Tuna and billfish catches (Marine),
The species covered by IATTC are yellowfin and skipjack tuna and other kinds of fish taken by tuna fishing vessels in the easternPacific Ocean.

Legal Framework  
Created by the Convention for the Establishment of an Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission signed by the Governments of the United States of America and Costa Rica in Washington on 31 May 1949, It entered into force on 3 March 1950.Link to resource

The Commission has regulatory powers and catch quotas for yellowfin tuna have been set by the Commission since 1962.

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